The Man Who Destroyed The Internet By Deleting 11 Lines Of Code
It’s a true story
The story of a man breaking the internet begins with something we all know and love: Doritos.
I’m just kidding. But Azer Koçulu may have been eating Doritos in his bedroom when he took down Netflix, Facebook, and many other popular websites. They taste great!
Anyway, let’s discuss the story of how one man broke the internet by deleting 11 lines of code.
It All Began With A Heated Argument…
Unlike many disagreements on the internet, Azer Koçulu wasn’t arguing with a stranger about Apple having superior products to Android.
You see, Koçulu had been publishing code he wrote to npm, a popular package manager that’s used as a registry to find and install open-source software in JavaScript.
For those who are unaware, Npm is a crucial tool in web development. It’s used billions of times every month because of its vast library of free code packages contributed by the open-source community. Plus, using npm saves programmers time when they need to develop projects because they can copy and paste open-source code.
Many websites on the internet are built this way. It’s like a giant Jenga tower. Programmers stack…
